How did you come up with that? The Paladin is a strength based, hold your ground that uses armor and shield with lineage back to the Zakarum church. The Spiritborne is a fast moving dexterity based with two-handed weapons’ with a connection to the jungles of Nahantu and the spirit realm.
Specific wording: “The new class is a wanderer” not ‘the’. No information has been given out aside from that from Adam. We have no idea what it will be, and that term is so vague it could literally mean anything. Crusaders are wanderers, the guy from D1 who stuck the soulstone in his head and eventually turned into D2 was a ‘wanderer’.
Paladin is a hybrid class based on auras , spirits in case of spiritborn, blocking is typical for spiritborn as well. Charge => ravager, different types of damage depending on the spirit hall , auras in case of paladin. The other hybrid part is covered by rogue. If you make him strength based with sword and shield, he’ll compete with barb.
Paladin is the most boring class. You’d have to make him handle his shield like captain america to be worth to play. He bacame famous in D2 because of a bug only, blessed hammer’s damage being boosted by concentration aura. Oh wait, Stinger spiritborn plays exactly like a homing hammerdin. Watch a video if you don’t believe me.
Amazon with javelin + shield/ spear would be 10X better and more fun to play.
I remember long time ago when I played hellgate london. The templars guardian and blademaster were so fun. The auras were amazing for me. I hope they include that in the new class.